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Movers & Shakers: January 30, 2017


Botswana: DCI -0.31%, USD 35k

Nothing to report from Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.8%, USD 3.0m

Another slow start to the week in Nairobi with some activity in EQBNK (-4.1%) as the name closed lower on foreign selling with 5.3m shares changing hands. KNCB (-3.1%) also closed in negative territory on local selling with 4.4m shares traded. Elsewhere, Safcom and EABL were dead quiet. The Kenyan Central Bank kept the benchmark rate unchanged at 10%.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.10%, USD 760k

The index inched higher on quiet turnover. The bulk of today’s action traded in MCBG (+50bps, Rs222.00) and Ciel (unch, Rs6.30).

Nigeria: ASI -0.42%, USD 2.4m

A dire day to start the trading week in Lagos with a cross in Guinness ($941k) the only name worth mentioning. Banking stocks closed the day -1.15% lower on tiny volume while consumers inched up by +0.13%.

Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.11%, USD 527k

The index continues to soften with volumes yet again generally muted. The only stock to trade today was OML which closed at 351c.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.59

1.05

Nigeria

NGN

304.76

3.47

Kenya

KES

104.00

-1.43

Mauritius

MUR

35.63

0.95

Botswana

BWP

10.58

1.07

Tanzania

TZS

2235.00

-2.42

Uganda

UGX

3591.79

0.13

Rwanda

RWF

817.45

0.56

Ghana

GHS

4.31

-1.74

BRVM

XOF

619.48

1.69

Egypt

EGP

18.84

-3.68

Morocco

MAD

10.05

0.73

Tunisia

TNF

2.32

-0.13

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